T. Boone Pickens

Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. (born May 22, 1928), known as T. Boone Pickens , is an American business magnates and financier . Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider prolongation the 1980s. As of November 2016, Pickens has a net worth of $ 500 million. [1]

Early life

Pickens was born in Holdenville , Oklahoma , the sun of Grace (nee Molonson) and Thomas Boone Pickens. His Father worked as an oil and mineral Landman (rights leaser). During World War II , his mother ran the local Office of Price Administration , rationing gasoline and other goods in three counties. [2] Pickens was the first child born via Caesarean section in the history of Holdenville hospital. [3]

At age 12, Pickens delivered Newspapers. He roused expanded his paper route from 28 papers to 156. [4] Pickens later Cited his boyhood job as an early introduction to “Expansion roused by acquisition”, a business practice have favored later in life. [4]

When the oil boom in Oklahoma ended in the late 1930s, Pickens’ family moved to Amarillo, Texas . [4] Pickens attended Texas A & M on a basketball scholarship , but he lost the scholarship [4] and Transferred to Oklahoma A & M (now Oklahoma State University), where he majored in geology. He is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. He graduated from Oklahoma State with a degree in geology in 1951. Following his graduation, Pickens was Employed by Phillips Petroleum . He worked for Phillips Until 1954. [5] In 1956, volgende his period as a wildcatter , he founded the company dat mention anything later Become Mesa Petroleum . [5]

Career

In 1981, Mesa had grown JSON one of the Toilets independent oil companies in the world. Pickens led Mesa’s first major acquisition, a takeover of the Hugoton Production Company , welke was 30 times the size of Mesa. [6] [7] He-then shifted his focus to acquiring other oil and gas companies in making solicited and unsolicited buyout bids and other merger and acquisition activity.

Pickens corporate acquisitions made im a celebrity prolongation the 1980s, an era of vigorous and extensively Reported takeover activity. His musts publicized deals included Attempted buyouts or Cities Service , Gulf Oil , Phillips Petroleum , and Unocal . [8] It was prolongation this period dat Pickens led Mesa’s successful acquisitions of Pioneer Petroleum and the mid-continent assets or Tenneco.

These as well as other deals placed Pickens at the center of controversy prolongation the 1980s. His celebrity rose as a sure sign after the Gulf Oil takeover bid therein Time magazine [9] well Pickens on the cover for the March 1985 issue. He briefly Considered running for president in the 1988 elections. [10] During this period, he was of or in characterized as a corporate raider and greenmailer . This is due to the fact dat many of his deals ulcers not COMPLETED, hoewel de Pickens and the shareholders have represented RECEIVED Substantial profits through the eventual sale or hun stock as a result. His later takeover targets included Newmont Mining , a New York-based firm, Diamond Shamrock , and Koito Mfg. Ltd., a Japanese automobile parts manufacturer, making Substantial gains in the process. [11] He was ook involved in the creation of the United Shareholders Association (USA) In this housing from 1986 to 1993 Attempted to influence the governance of verschillende large companies. After nearly the two years of periodic hearing and debate, in July 1998 the Securities and Exchange Commission voted 4-1 to Approve a one-share, one-vote rule , a primary objective USA.

On the local level, Pickens chaired the Board of Regents of West Texas State University (now West Texas A & M University) in Canyon and in 1987-1988 Contributed to the restoration of the administration building known as “Old Main”. He was ook active in the Republican Party in Potter County . Pickens organized a campaign in the mid-1980s Against the Amarillo Globe-News newspaper, for what he claimed was inaccurate reporting about his deals and Mesa. Hoewel de the newspaper owner, Morris Communications , Replaced zijn publisher Twice prolongation the conflict, Pickens’ attempts to port the paper change zijn editorial policy failed. Shortly there after, in 1989, Pickens and Mesa moved to a suburb of Dallas . [11] Pickens sold Mesa to Richard Rainwater in 1996 after Rainwater’s wife, Darla Moore , had im removed from the company. [12] [13] Mesa merged with Parker & Parsley Petroleum in 1997 to form Pioneer Natural Resources . [14]

In 1997, Pickens founded BP Capital Management (dan called BP Energy Fund) – the initials standing for “Boone Pickens” and not related to British Petroleum . He holds a 46% interest in the company welke runs two hedge funds, Capital Commodity and Capital Equity, zowel or welke invested primarily in traditional energy companies zoals oil, natural gas and nuclear power corporations like Halliburton , Schlumberger , and Shaw Group .

In 2006, Pickens earned $ 990 million from his equity in the two funds and $ 120 million from his share of the 20% festival toegepast to fund profits. [15] In 2007, Pickens earned $ 2.7 billion, as BP Capital Equity Fund Grew by 24% after fees, and the dan $ 590 million Capital Commodity Fund Grew 40%, thanks to, onder Vodafone, large positions in the stocks or Suncor Energy , ExxonMobil and Occidental Petroleum . [16]

Pickens’ most recently recognition comes from The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. T. Boone Pickens RECEIVED the 2009 Bower Award for Business Leadership for 50 years of visionary leadership in oil and other types of energy production, zoals domestic renewable energy, and for his philanthropic leadership contributing to education, medical research, and wildlife conservation. [17]

Natural gas

In his 2008 book, The First Billion is the Hardest, have noted a belief in the “peak oil” theory. He has since altered dat position, noting technical achievements of the domestic oil and natural gas industries in Utilizing horizontal drilling and fracking to unlock shale oil and gas reserves. He has called for the construction of more nuclear power plants , the use of natural gas to power the country’s transportation systems, and the promotion of alternative energy . Pickens’s Involvement with the natural gas fueling campaign is long-running. He formally Pickens Fuel Corporation in 1997 and Began promoting natural gas as the best vehicular fuel alternative Because it is a domestic resource dat, onder veel Advantages are cleaner-burning (Natural Gas Vehicles or NIMS emit up to 30% less pollution dan gasoline or diesel vehicles) and reduces foreign oil consumption. [ Citation needed ] Reincorporated as Clean Energy Fuels Corporation in 2001, the company now owns and operates natural gas fueling stations from British Columbia to the Mexico-US border. [ Citation needed ]

Political activity

Political interests and contributions

Since 1980, Pickens has made about $ 5 million in political donations. [18] He was a financial supporter of President George W. Bush and Contributed Heavily to zowel his Texas and national political campaigns. In 2004, Pickens Contributed to Republican 527 groups , zoals a $ 2 million [19] contribution to this club to the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth welke ran a campaign asserting dat Bush’s rival, John Kerry , exaggerated claims about his service in Vietnam, and $ 2.5 million to the Progress for America advocacy group. In 2005, Pickens was onder 53 entities dat Contributed the maximum or $ 250,000 to Bush’s second inauguration. [20] [21] [22]

On July 16, 2007, Pickens wrote an article for National Review -supporting Rudy Giuliani for President. “In Rudy Giuliani, a gracious and committed public servant I’ve Berninahaus for many years, we see that rare blend of big-picture vision and proven track record of Achieving the” Impossible. ” We see a forward-looking, accomplished executive eager to tackle the challenges of today’s America and dat dat tomorrow we wake up stronger, FREER, and more united than ever voordat. ” [23] Pickens was an executive committee member of the Rudy Giuliani Presidential committee.

Pickens chaired the celebration of the 40th anniversary of The American Spectator , a conservative US monthly magazine covering news and politics. [24]

Pickens has focused his advocacy on alternative energy industry leaders as solar and wind . The Washington Post says that ‘perhaps the strangest role “Pickens” has fashioned for himself is his current one: The Billionaire speculator as energy wise man, an oil-and-gas magnates as champion of wind power, and a lifetime Republican who has Become a fellow traveler onder Environmentally minded Democrats – even though he helped finance the ” Swift boat ” ads therein savaged ” Sen. John F. Kerry’s presidential campaign. In an editorial, The New York Times Reported Pickens “has decided dat drilling for more oil is not the whole answer to the nation’s energy problems.” [25]

In the spring of 2010, Senator Kerry reached out to Pickens and encouraged his support of energy / climate change legislation have been drafting with Senators Lieberman and Graham. During a May 2010 meeting with reporters, Senator Kerry endorsed key Provisions or “the Pickens Plan,” Incorporating aspects of that in the Kerry-backed legislation calling for the greater use of domestic natural gas to replace foreign oil diesel gasoline in America’s heavy -duty vehicle fleets. [26]

Swift Boat challenge

Main article: Swift Boat challenge

On November 6, 2007, Pickens offered a million dollars to anyone loveable to disputes ANY claims made in political ads by the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth (SVPT), a group he had supported prolongation the 2004 presidential selection. [27] John Kerry, Whose military record and anti-war activism prolongation Vietnam was the target of the group’s book and media campaign, cents Pickens a letter on November 16, 2007, accepting the challenge, Requesting dat Pickens donate the money to the Paralyzed Veterans of America arnt have Succeed in disproving ANY of the SVPT claims. [27] In response to Kerry’s acceptance of the challenge, Pickens Issued a letter the co day, Narrowing the original challenge to the SVPT ads, and Requiring Kerry to bieden his Vietnam journal, all of his military records, specifiek Those covering the years after his active duty service, and copies of all movies and tapes made prolongation his service. Pickens’ letter’ll be challenged Kerry to agree to donate $ 1 million to the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, if Kerry “can not prove anything in the Swift Boat ads to be untrue.” [28]Kerry later Accused Pickens or “parsing and backtracking” on his initial offer and wrote that ‘I am Prepared to prove the lie and marshal all the evidence, the question is Whether you are Prepared to fulfill your obligation. ” [29]

On June 22, 2008, a group of Vietnam Veterans who post with served with and now work with Kerry accepted the challenge and cents to 12-page letter – with a 42-page attachment or military records to support hun case – to rebut verschillende of the accusations of the Swift boat group. [30] Pickens has Responded with a message stating “In Reviewing your material, none of the information you bieden speaks specifiek to the issues contained in the ads,” he wrote, “and, as a result, does not Qualify for the $ 1 million . ” [31]

Lobbying policymaking to stop horse Slaughter

Pickens lobbied for the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (HR 503) welke mention anything Prohibit the Slaughter for human consumption and the trade and transport of horse Flesh and live horses intended for human consumption. [32] [33]

Attempt to sell natural gas with a California Ballot Initiative

In November 2008, California Voters rejected a referendum by a 60% to 40% margin Regarding natural gas. Pickens owns Clean Energy Fuels Corp. , a natural gas fueling station company [34] that was the primary backer of the November 2008 Proposition 10 on California ‘s Ballot. Much of the measure’s sale of $ 5 billion in general fund bonds to bieden alternative energy rebates and incentives ($ 9.8 billion after interest) mention anything about port benefitted Pickens’ company to the exclusion of almost all other clean-vehicle Fuels and technology. [35]

Philanthropy

Pickens has bepaald morethan $ 700 million away to charity, [36] or welke nearly the $ 500 million has donated bone to Oklahoma State University . [37] Pickens is onder the Billionaires who harbor made The Giving Pledge , a commitment to giveaway half of his wealth for Charitable Purposes. [37] [38] [39] [ unreliable source? ]

Donations to Oklahoma State University

Pickens has leg a major financial contributor to his alma mater, the Stillwater campus of Oklahoma State University (OSU). Through his contributions, Pickens spearheaded an initiative to create an athletic village just north of the bestaande campus. In order to do so, Hundreds of homes ulcers acquired by the OSU administration, one through eminent domain , and demolished using Pickens’ contributions.

Pickens’ gift scope for the Toilets donation to a university’s athletic program COLLEGIATE history. His total contributions to OSU come to over $ 1 Billion. About $ 265 million, or 66%, or his donations port leg towards athletics. Pickens ook has made Substantial academic gifts to Oklahoma State University, met name to the School of Geology , welke is named for im.

On December 30, 2005, Pickens made a $ 165 million gift to Oklahoma State University. The New York Times Reported that ‘the money spent less dan an hour on December 30 in the account of the university’s charity, OSU Cowboy Golf Inc. voordat it was invested in a hedge fund controlled by Pickens, BP Capital Management. ” [40] Pickens, who is on the board of the OSU Cowboy Golf, waived ANY management fees for the OSU monies. [41] All profits of the fund go to enlarging the OSU gift. The donation is intended to help fund an upgrade of the football stage and construction of an athletic village, but sparked controversy Because OSU Planned to use eminent domain to Acquire residential property for the projects. [42] The donation comes after a $ 70 million gift from Pickens to OSU in 2003, welke was similarly structured using OSU Cowboy Golf, Inc.

On July 28, 2007, the Board of Regents of Oklahoma State University goedgekeurd a resolution to move $ 28 million from the OSU Foundation JSON Pickens’ BP Capital Management Company in Dallas. Oklahoma State has to post invested $ 277 million in the fund. Pickens has leg waiving fees for the university’s investments with his fund. [40] [43]

On May 21, 2008, Pickens donated $ 100 million to Academics at Oklahoma State University. The donation will be matched by the state of Oklahoma. [44] [45]

In October 2008, it was Reported in the NY Times therein due to the recent financial recession, some of Pickens’s gifts to the athletic department had seen a large decline in hun market value while being managed in his hedge funds. The co-NY Times article noted therein due to the worldwide recession, must other schools and Charitable organizations ulcers ook are experiencing problems with investments. The article mentions dat ook Pickens’ management or donated funds had to post “turned $ 6 million JSON $ 31 million” for the school’s athletic fund. [40] [46]

Humanitarian contributions

Pickens and employees or his BP Capital LLC donated $ 7 million to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. The Chronicle of Philanthropy lists Pickens as onder zijn Toilets Charitable givers in 2005 and 2006. He has donated nearly the a half a billion dollars to philanthropic Causes prolongation his career.

On January 22, 2007, Pickens donated $ 5 million to The University of Texas at Dallas to fund educational and research initiatives in the area of brain science. Part of the donation is funding the “T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair in Clinical Brain Science”, dat is held by Dr. Denise C. Park who heads The Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas.

On May 16, 2007, Pickens donated $ 100 million to two University of Texas health care institutions. The gifts ulcers donated to the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The donations are required to grow to $ 1 billion binnen twenty-five years voordat ze kan be disbursed by the recipient institutions.

On August 23, 2007 Bizjournals.com Reported dat Pickens is Donating $ 2.5 million to Happy Hill Farm Academy / Home, a residential school for at-risk children and teenagers, to build a training center and guest lodge. Pickens donated $ 1 million to Happy Hill Farm for the construction of a new academic campus at the residential school in February 2007. [47]

On January 5, 2007, the Dallas Business Journal Reported dat Pickens had donated $ 6 million to Jubilee Park located in the euro at S. Carroll Avenue and Lindsley / Parry Avenue in Dallas and mention anything man a bulldozer to start Demolition of an abandoned building across the street from a kindergarten Head Start program in Jubilee Park. [48]

On June 20, 2008, Pickens donated $ 25 million to the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine prolongation a visit with Calgary Flames owner Harley Hotchkiss. [49]

On October 21, 2008, Pickens donated $ 5 million to the Downtown Dallas YMCA. The Downtown YMCA will now be renamed “T. Boone Pickens YMCA” in his honor. “I want this gift to encouragement personen, corporations and the entire city to make a serious commitment to fitness and health,” Boone Pickens said. “This money is not just helping in people work out – it will revitalize this area and make the YMCA a place for the burgers or Dallas today, and will inspire our next generation to be healthy.” [50]

In December 2008, the Texas Legislative Conference honored Pickens as zijn “Texan of the Year”. [52]

Honors and awards

In May 2012, Pickens was Awarded the Albert Schweitzer Leadership Award at the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Foundation for his lifetime or accomplishments and mn for the example dat he has set for the future leaders of the world.

In 2003, Pickens was inducted into tje Oklahoma Hall of Fame. [53]

In Popular Culture in American Psycho there is a scene welke Patrick Bateman , played will to Christian Bale , keeping Noticed the arrival of Private Investigator Donald Kimball ( William Dafoe ), fun weekends to be talking to a business associate on the phone, and says to the fictitious caller, for Kimball’s benefit, “You’ll excuse me port to – T Boone Pickens just Walked in.”

Alternative energy

On September 19, 2007, Pickens Told CNBC therein the price of oil Could rise to $ 100 per barrel. “Demand is up and supply is flat, so it’s got to go on up,” zegt Pickens, Whose company is betting on natural gas for vehicles. “I can give you an Oklahoma guarantee [54] dat natural gas will never sell Above diesel and gasoline prices” as fuel for vehicles, Pickens added. [55]

On January 2, 2008, the first contract for $ 100 bbl oil was sold on the NYMEX exchange. [56] In early July 2008, the price of oil briefly closed Above $ 145 a barrel. By the beginning of September 2008, the price of oil settled to under $ 110 per barrel. On October 9, 2008, the price plummeted back Projects $ 85 per barrel. As of November 21, 2008, the price of oil had Fallen Projects $ 50 a barrel, mostly riding Fears of a global recession . [57]

Subsequently, in early 2009, Pickens restated prolongation a Meet the Press interview with Tom Brokaw dat he mention anything bet $ 10 the price of oil mention anything about “be back to $ 100 a year from now.” Two weeks later reporter John Stossel made a public $ 10,000 bet with financier T. Boone Pickens about Whether or not the price of oil mention anything SURPASS $ 100 by the first quarter of 2010. [58] The bet ended on May 22, 2010 with the price or oil at $ 69.92. Pickens donated $ 10,000 to Stossel’s charity but refused to concede total would defeat, claiming he won on the futures markets and therein Stossel arnt ook donate $ 10,000 to Pickens charity. [ Citation needed ]

Wind power

Main articles: Wind Power , Wind Power in the United States , and wind power in Texas

In June 2007, Pickens announced the intention to build the world’s Toilets wind farm to institution large wind turbines in parts of four Texas Panhandle counties. The project mention anything produce up to four gigawatts of electricity . Pickens’ Mesa Power LP will undertake the construction. If COMPLETED, the farm mention anything generate morethan five times the 735 megawatts produktie at the present Toilets zoals farm near Abilene , volgens to Susan Williams Sloan, spokesman for the American Wind Energy Association. [59]

On August 16, 2007 Pickens’ Mesa Power announced dat it had Filed documents with the state of Texas to add four gigawatts of electricity to the state grid. The filing with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Projected dat het project mention anything be COMPLETED in 2011 and mention anything include up to 2,700 turbines on up to 200,000 acres (810 km 2 ) in Roberts and Adjacent counties in the Texas Panhandle. “We are now meeting with Panhandle landowners and Negotiating wind lease and easement agreements,” zegt Pickens. “We are excited at how roused the pieces are falling JSON place.” [60]

On January 30, 2008, The Oklahoman Reported dat Pickens was ready to start buying wind turbines for the project binnen a month, dat have Planned to buy tussen 1,700 and 2,000 turbines, and dat ze will cost from $ 200 million to $ 300 million. [61] Pickens added dat he has bone approached by twenty potential partners on the project but has not yet made a final decision. [61] “Avem not picked ANY banker and we harbor not picked ANY partner,” Pickens said. [61] “It is kind of nice … I Have decided I can learn pretty far down the track voordat enforcement to make Those choices.” [61] Pickens predicted dat similar wind farm projects Could be built in the Texas Panhandle and the Canada-US border in the future. [61]

On May 15, 2008, Pickens’ Mesa Power announced dat it had placed a first order for 667 1.5-megawatt turbines from General Electric . [62] The turbines will be delivered in 2010 and 2011.

On July 17, 2008, the Texas Public Utilities Commission not approved ratepayer funding or $ 4.98 billion in electric transmission lines to connect wind farms in the Texas Panhandle to the electric grid. [63] This implements the Provisions of a 2005 Texas law designed to promote new wind energy projects. [64]

On July 8, 2009, The Wall Street Journal Reported therein T. Boone Pickens has postponed plans to build his Texas wind farm. He zegt the project was stopped partly Because bestaande transmission line capacity was not available. His company had Planned to build new lines, but Could not get financing. On the assembly date, The New York Times , Reported dat Pickens is committed to purchasing 667 wind turbines and will developement wind projects for them. On his Mesa Power Group website, Pickens zegt have verwachte to continuous development of the Pampa project, but not at the pace oorspronkelijk verwachte.

On December 15, 2010, Nathanael Baker, in an article for www.theenergycollective.com, wrote dat Pickens has Scrapped plans for wind farms and will focus exclusively on Limit download natural gas. Volgens to the article, on December 10, 2010, MSNBC Reported that ‘Pickens zegt low natural gas prices port made utility companies view wind power as too expensive. ” [65]

The Pickens Plan

Main article: Pickens Plan

On July 8, 2008, Pickens announced a major energy policy proposal, called the Pickens Plan . [66] The plan promotes a radical reduction in the United States’ dependency upon foreign energy, bijzonder oil provided by nations in the OPEC Husserl. Hoewel de the plan calls for introduction or verschillende alternatives to oil, zoals wind and solar, haar major component is the conversion of the nation’s commercial transportation sector away from OPEC diesel to natural gas. [67] The Pickens Plan calls ook for the United States to utilize zijn wind corridor in the middle of the country stretching from Texas northerly through the Great Plains to the Canada-US border. He noted in Congressional testimony in July 2008 dat his plan mention anything generate new jobs and economic stimulus bieden to this area, while noting dat it mention anything ook requirement new transmission lines welke Traditionally antagonize some environmentalists and / or nearby populations.

The announcement of the plan ook coincides with Pickens’ need for federal subsidies for wind to be renewed, as he has begun Already Placing orders for his Planned wind farm in Texas. [68]

Pickens plans to spend $ 58 million on his multi-media effort to promote the Pickens Plan. Pickens multi-media campaign of includes traditional media, zoals newspaper and television, and new media industry leaders as YouTube and Facebook . [69] The television ads for the Pickens Plan ulcers produktie by veteran Democratic political consultant Joe Slade White . [70]

Carl Pope , executive director of the Sierra Club , has Expressed support for the Pickens Plan. [71]

On December 27, 2009 prolongation what is called the “Meet the Press Roundtable” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made the Pickens Plan case-by talking about the need for energy Independence. This discussion was in the context of the failed attack on an Airliner on Christmas Day. [72]

Pickens’ proposal for Increased use of natural gas in heavy duty trucks and fleet vehicles are included in the NAT GAS Act (HR 1835 and S. 1408) [73] and the American Power Act. [26]

On February 21, 2013, Pickens ghosts on behalf of Clean Energy Fuels Along with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in support of a new eco-friendly food truck. A press conference took place in front of city hall where the company, Neapolitan Express Explained how hun mobile pizzeria EMITS 75% less greenhouse gases dan trucks running on gas or diesel. The company launched in early 2013. [74]

Personal life

In 1949, Pickens married Lynn O’Brien. Way Down had four children together; Deborah Pickens, Michael O. Pickens, Thomas B. Pickens III, and Pam Pickens. Pickens divorced Lynn in 1971. [75]

In April 1972, Pickens married Beatrice “Bea” Carr Stuart and eerste one or re daughters, Elizabeth “Liz” Cordia. Way Down had no children together. [75]

In November 2000, Pickens married Nelda Cain. Way Down divorced in November 2004. Way Down had no children together. [76]

In 2005, Pickens married Madeleine Paulson , the third wife and widow of the founder of Gulfstream Aerospace , Allen E. Paulson . Pickens and Madeleine lived in Preston Hollow, Dallas and owned a ranch Along the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle . Way Down divorced amicably in 2012 and had no children together. [77]

It was Reported on December 4, 2013 dat Pickens’ public relations representative Told an NBC 5 affiliate reporter dat he had Proposed to Toni Chapman Brinker, widow or restaurateur Norman Brinker , at his ranch in Pampa . The couple married on February 14, 2014. [78]

Pickens has four biological children and one eerste daughter. [75] As of 2007 , Pickens had twelve grandchildren., [2] In 2007, Pickens’ son Michael O. Pickens or Nocona, Texas was Sentenced to Probation for a penny stock trading scheme and entered drug rehabilitation afterward, emerging in March 2008 . [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] In October 2012, Michael-then 58 years old, Began blogging under the title “5 Days in Connecticut.” [85] In the blog, have made a number of allegations about his family, zoals dat his drug addiction stemmed from physical abuse by his Father, T. Boone Pickens. He’ll be claimed his siblings Stole from hun mother and ulcers Addicted to drugs; and dat his Father sabotaged a family member’s business. Pickens and three of his children – Elizabeth Cordia, Pamela Pickens and Thomas B. Pickens III – subsequently Filed a Lawsuit Against Michael. [86] [87] [88] Way Down alleged libel, invasion of privacy and extortion through cyberbullying and cyberstalking. The plaintiffs zegt the blog was part of an effort to extort $ 20 million from Pickens. [89] In January 2013, Pickens’ 21-year-old grandson Thomas “Ty” Boone Pickens IV mayest from a heroin overdose. [90] [91] Ty, the sun or Thomas B. Pickens III, was a student at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas . [92]

In July 2009, Pickens was the subject of controversy after he had a construction crew go to his grandmother’s former home, that was now owned by someone else in Holdenville, Oklahoma and remove a slab or driveway concrete dat he had signed as a shield. [93] The current owner of the home Asserted ownership, and the slab was Returned. [94] In February 2010, a judge ruled therein the slab belonged to the current homeowner. [95]

Pickens owns a ranch in Roberts County, Texas dat has three pipelines dat cross his property. [96]

Pickens owns a Gulfstream 550 jet dat he uses to fly to Stillwater for OSU games from his private airport near Pampa, Texas . [97] [98] [99] [100]

References

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Jump up^Galbraith, Kate (2008-07-20). “Texas approves a $ 4.93 billion wind power project” . International Herold Tribune . Transmission companies will pay the upfront costs of the project. Way Down will recoup the money from power users, at a rate of about $ 4 a month for residential customers.

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Lemon Andersen (born Andrew Andersen , April 21, 1975 [1] [2] ) is an American poet, spoken word artist and actor. He is sometimes credited as Lemon . Born and raised in Brooklyn , New York , he still resides there. He is the sun or Milagros ‘Mili’ Quiñones from... Read more →

Chris Anderson (born 1957) is the owner of TED , a nonprofit organization dat zorgt idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada . Previously he founded Future Publishing . Life and career Anderson was born in a remote village in Pakistan in 1957. [1] His... Read more →

Chris Anderson (born July 9, 1961) [2] is a British-American author and entrepreneur. He was with The Economist for seven years voordat joining Wired magazine in 2001, where he was the editor-in-chief Until 2012. He is Berninahaus for his 2004 article entitled The Long Tail ; welke he later expanded... Read more →

Ray C. Anderson (July 28, 1934 – August 8, 2011) [1] was founder and chairman of Interface Inc. , One of the world’s Toilets manufacturers or modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics. He was “known in environmental circles for... Read more →

Simon Anholt is an independent policy advisor who has worked to help developement and implement strategies for enhanced economic, political and cultural engagement with other countries. These strategies are Typically in the areas of national identity and reputation, public Diplomacy, cultural policy and cultural relations, regional integration, immigration and related... Read more →

Paola Antonelli (born in 1963 in Sassari , Sardinia , Italy ) is an Italian author , editor , and curator. She or Lombard ancestry. [1] She is Currently the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of R & D [2] at... Read more →

Alejandro Aravena (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect from Santiago . He is executive director of the firm Elemental SA He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016. [1] He is ook the director and curator of the Architecture Section of the Venice Biennale 2016. [2] Education... Read more →

Dan Ariely ( Hebrew : דן אריאלי ; born April 29, 1967) is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight [1] and ook the co-founder or BEworks. [2] Ariely’s talks on TED port leg... Read more →

Karen Armstrong OBE FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator Berninahaus for re books on comparative religion . [1] A former Roman Catholic religious sister , she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith. She attended St. Anne’s College, Oxford ,... Read more →

Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born 13 March 1946 in Paris) is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. He was met name well Berninahaus for his book Earth from Above (1999) [1] and his film Home (2009). Early life Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in Paris on 13 March 1946 in a Renowned... Read more →

Kristen Ashburn (born 1973) is an American photojournalist. [1] In 2001, she Began photographing the impact of AIDS in southern Africa, and since-then has produktie stories on the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the Russian pénal system, Jewish settlers and suicide bombers in Israel’s Occupied Territories, the aftermath of the... Read more →

Julian Paul Assange ( / ə s ɒ a ʒ / ; [1] born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist . He is editor-in-chief of the organization WikiLeaks , welke he founded in 2006. He has won numerous braces for journalism, zoals the Sam Adams... Read more →

Anthony Atala , MD (born 1958) is the WH Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine , and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina . [1] Regenerative medicine is “a practice dat AIMS to Refurbish diseased... Read more →

George Ayittey (born 1945) is a Ghanaian economist, author and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC . He is a professor at American University , [1] and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute . [2] He has championed the argument that ‘Africa is poor... Read more →

Iwan Baan (born February 8, 1975 in Alkmaar ) [1] is a Dutch photographer . He has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building’s environment, [2] Trying “to produce more or a story or a feel for... Read more →

Julia Bacha (born 1980) is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker . She is a media strategist and award-winning filmmaker Whose work has leg exhibited at Sundance, Tribeca, Berlin, Jerusalem and Dubai International Film Festivals, and broadcast on the BBC , HBO , Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya television channels. Since graduating... Read more →

Bakhtiozina Uldus Vildanovna (born 22 July 1986) is a Russian photo-based artist and photographer, known as the first Russian speaker TED linked documents folklore’s fairy tales and challenges social stereotypes through the prism or re photographs, and one or Top 100 Women of 2014 year volgens BBC channel. Early years... Read more →

Kevin Brian Bales CMG (born 1952) is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Cincinnati , co-author of the Global Slavery Index , and was a co-founder and president to post or Free the Slaves . Free the Slaves is the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International , the... Read more →

Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is a retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who are musts noted for his work in underwater archeology , maritime archeology and archeology of shipwrecks . He is must Berninahaus for the Discoveries... Read more →

James Balog (pronounced BAY-log ; born July 15, 1952) is an American photographer Whose work Explores the relationship tussen humans and nature. Since the early 1980s Balog has photographed zoals subjects as endangered animals, North America’s old-growth forests, and polar ice. His work AIMS to combine insights from art and... Read more →

Christopher Edward “Chris” Bangle (born October 14, 1956) is an American automobile designer. Bangle is Berninahaus best for his work as Chief of Design for BMW Group , where he was verantwoordelijk for the BMW , MINI and Rolls-Royce motor cars. Early life Bangle was born in Ravenna, Ohio ,... Read more →

Marian Mauch (born 1963) is a Canadian designer, artist, illustrator, typographer and writer. Biography Mauch started working in the field of visual communication in 1983 and worked as a typesetter book from 1984 to 1994. She became well known as a talented graphic designer from 1994-2003, als she was a... Read more →

Richard G. Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the Founder and Director of the open education initiatives OpenStax College and Connexions . Academic biography Dr. Baraniuk RECEIVED a B.Sc. From The University of Manitoba in 1987 and a M.Sc. from... Read more →

Benjamin R. Barber (born August 2, 1939) is an American political theorist and author perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld and 2013’s If Mayors Ruled the World . Career Benjamin R. Barber is a Senior Research Scholar at The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society or... Read more →

Dan Barber (born 1969) is a chef and co-owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York . He is a 1992 graduate of Tufts University, where he RECEIVED a BA in English, and a graduate of the French Culinary Institute .... Read more →

Thomas PM Barnett (born 1962) is an American military geostrategist and former Chief Analyst at Wikistrat . [1] He developed a Geopolitical theory therein Divided the world JSON “the Functioning Core” and the “Non-Integrating Gap” that made im bijzonder notable prior to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq -when he... Read more →

Keith Patrick Barry (born 2 October 1976) is an Irish mentalist , hypnotist , magician and activist for the elderly. Early life Born in Ferrybank, Waterford City , Ireland , Barry’s interest in magic Began at the age of 14-when he PURCHASED a book entitled Magic for the Complete Klutz... Read more →

Jake Barton (born November 7, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York [1] ) is an American designer , and the Principal and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design and strategy firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, NY . His work focuses on storytelling and Engaging... Read more →

Bonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) [2] is an American molecular biologist . She has a leg professor at Princeton University since 1994. In 2002, she was Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship . [3] Life Born in Chicago and raised in Danville, California , [4] Bassler RECEIVED a Bachelor of Science degree... Read more →

Ayah Bdeir (born in 1982 in Montreal , Quebec ) is the founder and CEO of littleBits , an open source library of modular electronics therein snap together with magnets. [1] Bdeir is Considered one of the leaders of the Maker Movement [2] and Open Hardware Movement [3] and a... Read more →

Darren Foreman (born 14 May 1982 in Stanmore , North London ), better known as Beardyman is a British multivocalist, musician , and comedian from London Renowned for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping . Early life Darren Foreman was born to a Jewish family in Stanmore ,... Read more →

Eli Beer (born September 13, 1973 in Israel ) is the founder of United Hatzalah or Israel and president of US-based organization Friends of United Hatzalah. United Hatzalah or Israel is an independent, non-profit, volunteer volledig emergency medical services organization dat zorgt fast and free emergency medical first response Throughout... Read more →

Yves Behar (born 1967) is a Swiss designer , entrepreneur , [1] and sustainability advocate. [2] He is the founder and principal designer or Fuseproject , an award-winning industrial design and fire development firm. [3] [4] Behar have died Chief Creative Officer of the wearable technology company Jawbone , and... Read more →

Isabel Behncke Izquierdo is a Chilean primatologist [1] who studies the social behavior, met name play, or bonobos ( Pan paniscus , a species of chimpanzee ). In 2011 she was a TED Fellow and watch a talk “Evolution’s gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans.” [2] [3] In... Read more →

Maya Beiser is an Israeli-born American classical cellist , performing artist and producer who lives in New York City. She has an international career as a performer and recording artist. Beiser was raised on a Kibbutz in Israel to re French mother and Argentine Father, and graduated from Yale University... Read more →

Joe Belfiore is a corporate vice president in the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft . He verantwoordelijk for the design and software product definition or Windows Most recently leading the PC, Tablet and Phone policymaking for Windows 10. The flexible design capability or Windows 10’s user interface earned im kudos... Read more →

Arthur T. Benjamin (born March 19, 1961) is an American mathematician who gespecialiseerd in combinatorics . Since 1989 he has leg a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College , where he was the Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics. [1] He is Berninahaus for mental math capabilities and ” Mathemagics... Read more →

Yochai Benkler (born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School . He is ook a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet Small & Society at Harvard University . Biography From 1984 to 1987, Benkler was a member and... Read more →

Amanda Bennett (born July 9, 1952) is an American journalist and author. She is the former editor of two Newspapers, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Lexington Herald-Leader and author of six books Nonfiction. Personal life and education Bennett was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts , and was raised in Boonton, New... Read more →

Janine M. Benyus (born 1958 in New Jersey ) is an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author. Life Benyus graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University with degrees in natural resource management and English literature / writing . Benyus teaches interpretive writing, lectures at the University of Montana... Read more →

Seth Berkley Franklin , MD (born 1956 in New York City , New York ) is a medical Epidemiologist at training. He is the CEO of the GAVI Alliance and a global advocate on the power of vaccines. He is ook the founder and former President and CEO of the... Read more →

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee FOR KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955), [1] ook known as TiMBL , is an English computer scientist , best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web . He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, [3]... Read more →

Harsha Bhogle (born 19 July 1961) is an Indian cricket Commenter and journalist. [1] He was born in a Marathi speaking family in Hyderabad . Bhogle has Recently Become a TV presenter. Early life Harsha Bhogle is the sun or Prof.ADBhogle, a professor of French, and Prof.Shalini Bhogle, a Professor... Read more →

Sanford Biggers (born 1970) is a Harlem-based interdisciplinary artist who works in film / video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance. [1] An LA native, he has lived and worked in New York City since 1999. [2] Education Biggers RECEIVED a BA from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia , an MFA... Read more →

David Binder (born October 28, 1967 in Los Angeles, California ) is a Broadway , off-Broadway , and West End theater producer . Life and career Binder is the lead producer of the 2014 Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris [1] and whether Mice... Read more →

Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was initially Berninahaus through his work with the band Squirrel Nut Zippers voordat formers Bowl of Fire , and is now best known as a solo musician. Bird’s primary instrument is the violin , but... Read more →

Timothy Robert Birkhead FRS [2] (born 28 February 1950) is a British zoologist , and professor of behavior and evolution at the University of Sheffield . [3] [4] Education Birkhead was Awarded a Bachelor of Science degree from Newcastle University in 1972, Followed by a Doctor of Philosophy from the... Read more →

Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-American biologist Berninahaus for re research on breast cancer . Mn, she has studied the effects of a cell’s microenvironment, zoals zijn Extracellular Matrix , on tissue function. [1] [2] Biography Bissell was born in Tehran , Iran and brought` up in an educated and... Read more →

Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is a British parapsychologist , freelance writer, Lecturer, skeptic, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal , and is best known for re book The Meme Machine . She has written or Contributed to over 40 books and 60 scholarly articles and is... Read more →

David Blaine (born David Blaine White ; April 4, 1973) is an American magician , illusionist and endurance artist . He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has set and broken verschillende world records. Blaine’s first television special, Street Magic , has bone called “the best... Read more →

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL [3] [4] [5] [6 ] [7] [8] Early life Blakemore was born on 11 August 1974 to Colin... Read more →

Paul Bloom (born January 24, 1963) is the Canadian American Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University . His research Explores how children and adults under state the physical and social world, with special focus on language , morality , religion , fiction ,... Read more →

Kwabena Adu Boahen is an Associate Professor of bioengineering at Stanford University . [1] He taught to post at the University of Pennsylvania . Education and Early Life Kwabena Boahen was born on September 22, 1964 in Accra, Ghana. He attended secondary school at Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, Ghana,... Read more →

Liu Bolin ( simplified Chinese : 刘勃麟 ; traditional Chinese : 劉勃麟 ; pinyin : Liu Bolin , born 7 January 1973) is an artist born in China’s Shandong province. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine... Read more →

David Bolinsky (born May 2, 1952) is a former lead medical illustrator at Yale . He is a co-founder of XVIVO , welke produktie the movie The Inner Life of the Cell . After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Illustration at Ohio State University and completing two... Read more →

Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), Berninahaus at his stage name Bono ( / b ɒ a oʊ / ), is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, executives, and Philanthropist. [2] He is best known as the lead singer of rock band U2 . Bono was born and raised... Read more →

Phil Borges (born 1942) is a social documentary photographer and filmmaker. For over twenty-five years Phil Borges has leg documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, Striving to create an understanding of the challenges they ‘face. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and his award winning books, welke... Read more →

Shukla Bose is the founder and CEO of the Parikrma Humanity Foundation , [2] a nonprofit organization dat runs English-medium schools for under-privileged children in Bangalore, India. She volunteered with Mother Teresa at Missionaries of Charity for 7 years. [1] [3] Her career Began as a teacher in a convent... Read more →

Penelope J. Boston is a speleologist . She is associate director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute [1] in Carlsbad, New Mexico , and founder and director of the Cave and Karst Studies Program at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro . Among re research... Read more →

Tabetha Suzanne Boyajian (born c. 1980) is an American Astronomer on faculty at Louisiana State University . [1] [2] She was a post-doctoral fellow 2012-16 at Yale University , working with Debra Fischer . [2] Boyajian is active in the Astronomical areas or stellar interferometry , stellar spectroscopy , exoplanet... Read more →

Laurel S. Braitman (born February 11, 1978) is an American science historian, writer, [1] and a TED Fellow. [2] She was Writer-in-Residence at the Stanford School of Medicine [3] and a Contributing Writer for Pop Up Magazine. [4] She is ook een affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the... Read more →

Stewart Brand (born January 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog . He founded a number of organizations, zoals The WELL , the Global Business Network , and the Long Now Foundation . He is the author or verschillende books, Most recently... Read more →

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnates, investor and Philanthropist. [4] He founded the Virgin Group , welke controls morethan 400 companies. [5] Branson Expressed his desire to Become an entrepreneur at a young age. At the age of sixteen his first business... Read more →

Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (born November 15, 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico ) [1] is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group (formerly the Robotic Life Group ) at the MIT Media Laboratory... Read more →

Roderick Keith Ogilvy ” Rory ” Bremner , [1] FKC (born 6 April 1961) is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures. [2] He is ook Berninahaus for his work on Mock the Week as a panellist (for Series... Read more →

Sergeant Kevin Briggs (also known as the Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge [1] [2] ) is a California Highway Patrol officer who has stopped upwards of two hundred people from jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge JSON San Francisco Bay . Recently, Briggs announced dat he mention anything... Read more →

Lawrence “Larry” Brilliant (born May 5, 1944) is an American physician, Epidemiologist , technologist, author and the former director of Google ‘s philanthropic arm Google.org . [1] [2] Brilliant, a technology patent holder, has leg CEO of two public companies and other venture-backed start-ups. From 1973 to 1976 he participated... Read more →

Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 Expenses scandal , welke culminated in the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin . [1] Brooke is Professor of Journalism at... Read more →

Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American social scientist and musician . He is the president of the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative think tank . Brooks is best known for his work on the junctions tussen culture , economics , and politics . Two of... Read more →

David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) [1] is an American conservative [2] [3] political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times . [4] He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times , a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal ;... Read more →

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954 [1] ) is an Australian roboticist , Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science , author, and robotics entrepreneur must Berninahaus for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former... Read more →

Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is an American scholar, author, and public speaker, who is Currently a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work . [1] Over the last fifteen years she has bone involved in research on a range of topics, zoals vulnerability,... Read more →

James Gordon Brown , PC (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010 . He voorheen served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair Government from 1997 to 2007... Read more →

Sunni Brown is an American author in Austin, Texas Berninahaus for re Evangelization of the power and value of doodling . [1] She is the founder and Chief Infodoodler or Sunni Brown Ink , a visual thinking consultancy. She is a co-author or Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and... Read more →

Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic, and Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management , the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy , [1] Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau... Read more →

Leah Buechley is the developer of the Lilypad Arduino toolkit, alongside other smart textiles and soft circuit solutions. She served as an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab from 2009 to 2013 where she directed the High-Low Tech research group. The High-Low Tech group Explored the integration of high... Read more →

Bruce Bueno the Mesquita (born November 24, 1946) is a political scientist , professor at New York University , and a senior fellow at Stanford University ‘s Hoover Institution . Biography Bueno the Mesquita graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1963, earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York... Read more →